ASIC(专用集成电路)设计领域发生了戏剧性的变化。造成这种情况的原因在于:FPGA(现场可编程门阵列)技术在所含门电路数量和它在系统中应用的灵活性两个方面都有了极大提高。当把上市时间考虑在内时,曾一度被认为最适合迅速促进消费的ASIC设计证明是代价非常高的。ASIC太高的风险已 There has been a dramatic change in the design of ASICs (application specific integrated circuits). The reason for this is that the FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) technology has seen tremendous growth in both the number of gates it contains and the flexibility it uses in the system. When considering time to market, ASIC designs, once considered best for rapid consumer spending, proved costly. ASIC is too high risk already